Ok clicked on the TM drive and went back into the day before drive failed, when I got to the "Pictures" folder and clicked on it I get this "The folder “Pictures” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."

Ok clicked on the TM drive and went back into the day before drive failed, when I got to the "Pictures" folder and clicked on it I get this "The folder “Pictures” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."

Get Info on that folder and see what the permissions are. You might have to give yourself Read/Write permission.

So will this terminal process, do another restore from TM to my imac or just give me access to those pics?

Now I CAN access TM backups made after the new HD was installed in my iMac.

So.....HD in iMac "died" 4/23/11. New HD in iMac 4/27/11. First new TM backup 4/28/11. I can access 4/28/11 back ups forward. 4/23/11 backup and previous give me folders with a little (-) in the lower right corner of the folder and wont give me permission to open them.

So will this terminal process, do another restore from TM to my imac or just give me access to those pics?

The Terminal thing will change permissions of the TM drive. If all you need is the pics you should be able to access them now.

Turn off TM temporarily as the next time it runs it will change the permissions back.

I'm wondering what else may not have come over correctly that you don't know about yet. You might want to do the Terminal thing, then immediately reboot from the install DVD and try another full restore.

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